davep
davep
Dave Pearson
My personal blog which covers a handful of main topics and wanders through all sorts of subjects. Mostly you'll see me writing about coding and Python and a bit of Emacs and so on; but sometimes there will be more random thoughts and personal stuff.
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It's that time again. Time to add another small web protocol to Rogallo. This time it's one I stumbled across a few days ago: the Nex protocol. This one is very simple and straightforward and it seemed like a shame not to support it. So,...
I've released v1.8.0 of Rogallo. This release has a bit of an accidental emphasis on control of how things are rendered in the main viewer. Markdown While Rogallo is, of course, primarily aimed at loading and rendering Gemtext documents,...
When I first created GopherMap, I made it pretty strict about what it did and didn't consider a valid map. Unsurprisingly, reality did what reality does and, pretty quickly, Rogallo met maps that didn't fit with this strict approach. So...
Yesterday evening, while tinkering with Rogallo, I managed to nerd-snipe myself pretty well. I was playing around with the idea of better presentation of some forms of text/* content. While, of course, Rogallo handles text/gemtext just...
I've just made a small release of Rogallo, bumping the version to v1.7.0. Most of the changes in this version aren't very visible, but quite a few things have changed under the hood. One change that might show up on occasion is the...
As Rogallo got close to being "stable", I did a fair bit of work on its documentation. Something that I wanted to include in the site was a good collection of up-to-date screenshots. These are all created on the fly. To do this, of...
Rogallo v1.6.0 is now available. This release concentrates on the addition of a newly-supported protocol, and improving what can be displayed in the viewer and how it looks. The headline change is the addition of support for the Spartan...
Now that Rogallo supports multiple protocols, it's tempting to add one or two more. As of the time of writing, alongside Gemini, both Gopher and Finger are supported. While wandering the small web, I stumbled on the Spartan protocol....
I've released a small update to Gemtext. At the moment, I'm working on adding Spartan protocol support to Rogallo, and to do this I need to handle a small extension it makes to Gemtext. While Spartan is quite different from Gemini in the...
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. Airwave - an ATC Sim-Game Flight sims have been my thing for decades. It might be fun to play at being the voice on the other...
After a short break to do some fossil hunting, I'm back tinkering with Rogallo. The main change in v1.5.0 is the addition of support for custom themes. Before I get to that though, there's a small number of other fixes, additions and...
If you've ever visited my main web site you might have stumbled on Grid Bike. This was a game that teenage me wrote on my VIC-20. I was bold enough to submit it to Personal Computer News, and ended up having it published in the December...
Today was a wonderful day of fossil hunting on the east beach in Whitby. We were ready to get down onto the beach before the tide was out enough to let us on, and got off not too long before it would have been back in again (but with...
Back in Whitby. Fossils will be hunted. Food will be eaten. Easily my favourite place to visit.
I've updated Rogallo to v1.4.0. The main change in this release is to how server certificates are handled, which in turn should solve a bit of friction Rogallo had when using some popular Gemini capsules. Until now, Rogallo simply used a...